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Maintaining Software
The V100-E manages three types of files:
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Boot ROM program files
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Application program files
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Configuration files
Software maintenance mainly involves upgrading/downloading Boot ROM/application program files
and uploading/downloading configuration files.
Boot Menu
This section introduces the Boot menu that you use in maintaining the software of the V100-E.
Set up a configuration environment (see Figure 4-1) and then boot the V100-E. Press
Ctrl
+
B
when the
system prompts “Press Ctrl-B to enter Boot menu”. Then the system displays:
Please input Boot ROM password :
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Press
Ctrl
+
B
within three seconds to access the Boot menu after the prompt “Press Ctrl-B to
Enter Boot menu...” appears. Otherwise, the system starts decompressing the program.
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If you want to access the Boot menu after the system starts decompressing the program, you need
to reboot the V100-E.
Type the correct password and press
Enter
(If no Boot ROM password has been set, just press
Enter
).
The system accesses the Boot menu shown as follows:
Boot menu on the V100-E
Boot Menu:
1: Download application program with XMODEM
2: Download application program with NET
3: Display file in flash
4: Delete file from flash
5: Start up and ignore configuration
6: Enter debugging environment
7: Boot Rom Operation Menu
8: Do not check the version of the software
9: Exit and reboot
Enter your choice(1-9):
Further description is given for the option 8:
